Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-08-04
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TENDER 1st.
arafson's Methodist camp meeting is
not a success.
Henry Bacler was killed by lightning
Monday at Leonard.
The Aurora shirt factory has been in
duoed TO move to Elkton.
Fourteen horses have recently been
stolen in the Hlghmore region.
Anton L9nated,a Has@ood farm hand,
was struck bY Lightning Monday.
Several houses 1T Grand Forss were
struck by liehtuing Sunday night.
Burglars robbed Col. Sheafess house
at Waters"wn of all tie plate and
jewelrs.
Large narnbeis of emigrant teams still
continue 70 psss through Harold en-
route for the Black His.
The Minneapolis and Pacific railroad
company will at once build an elevator
at Cakes, equal to any now there.
Three men were removed from the
Harold section Of the N. W. R. r. last
week On account of scarcity of work.
Harvesting in Aurora county is about
finished and stacking, which has been
kept back DJ the heavy rains is pro-
gressing.
Thomas Peter, q farmer living hear
Okoboii, was struck by lightning and
killed in his house Monday while going
from one room to another.
A temperance mass meeting for
Stutsman county was held at James
town Saturday. An organization was
Effected for the coming campaign.
The extension of the main line of the
Minneapolis and Pacific railroad COM
pany to Cakes has given that city an
impetus that will soon make it one of
the important cities OF the territory.
Acting Indian Commissioner Upshaw
he's consented to q request to allow tit.y
Indians from Rosebud sgency to attend
the north Nebraska reunion at Norfolk,
August % 81. This will include several
noted chIefa.
The owners of the Troy farm at Tap
pan have served an order on County
Treasurer Fridley restraining HIM from
collecting real tax. This trouble arose
because Kidder county refuses t recog-
nize Tsppan as part of Stanton county.
A north and south railroad is rumored
along the west side Of Hyde county to
take in Holabird. 1t is said that 1t is
an affair OF the Chicago and Northwest
ern railway company and it is also said
to be an enterprise of the Illinois Cen
trail.
Spencer, on the Northwestern be-
tween Mitchell and Sioux Falls, wants
a newspaper office, q good hotel, q har-
mess shop and FIGURING mill, end ..illl
give inducements to any newspaper or
manufacturing institution started, as
also to q good hotel.
A freight train coming into Devils
Lake Tuesday morning ran into a work
train standing on the main track, tele-
scoping the caboose and sleeping car,
killing Henry Flynn, of Minneapolis,
fatally iplaring q man named Peter
Carlson and injuring two others.
At Brooklngs Sunday night when q
freight train arrived from the west il
came in contact with q number OF OBJ
struetions which had been placed upon
the track. The train men saw a number
OF boys run away, and succeeded in
catching n OF them, who gave the
names of five others, he claiming not to
have had any hand in the matter.
At Highmore last Saturday a little
boy about ten years old jumped astrad
die OF the tongue of o thrasher attached
to a moving traction engine, and fell off
in front of the thrasher wheels. The en-
gsneer closed the throttle, stopped the
engine and an assistant slipping in and
attempting to get the boy, placed his
hand on the throttle just in time to
have one OF his fingers cut off. The boy
escaped unhurt.